Repurposed Counselor's Mailbox

In my school we have these old mailboxes on several random doors that don't seem to have any purpose other than for kids to put trash in or to flick the lid up and down as they pass them. I happened to be in need of a new place for kids to put their requests to see the counselor slips so I took one of them (with my principals permission of course) to re-purpose  Last year I made one from a manila envelope and it was looking pretty rough. I try to be crafty but I am not very good at it so here is what I did. My first thought was to spray paint it but I found it to be too bent up and thought it would show so much that it would not be that attractive. So I grabbed my favorite tool, my glue gun, and got to work with some scrap paper that I had left over.


I cut the paper to fit the lid and I then hot glued it a lot so that hopefully it will not come off throughout this year (I plan on covering it differently next year). I then took a 5x7 manila envelope and cut about two inches off of the bottom to hold the request to see the counselor slips which I glued to the front of the mailbox. I took twine to tie a pen to the box  through the conveniently located hole in the middle of the box so I tied a knot on the other end to hold it in.

I liked the way it turned out and am happy with it. The kids seem to like it and it does the job!

Request to the Counselor slips.
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